Parent support advise
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:21 am
Hello my daughter is 22 she has Dyspraxia and acute anxiety and now depression. She managed to complete her degree this year with a lot of support from the university and myself. She is now living back with us and is very depressed, anxious and low. She won't get any help and she is lashing out at me all the time. She is not talking to me now for the last 10 days she says I don't understand or empathise with depression and anxiety because I don't have those myself. It would be great to get advise about how to support a young adult with Dyspraxia, depression and anxiety. I want to find the best way to support her to take the next steps in her life, I want to just be there for her. I get frustrated that she won't get any help - she is taking beta blockers to help with the anxiety - won't see a therapist, won't do any self care and says that we should just except however she behaves to us. All her life I have tread a fine balance between encouraging her to do things on her own and micro supporting her. Now she is a young adult it feels less clear how to go forward. Thanks